different between horizon vs whiteout

English

Etymology

From Old French orizon, via Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h???a?z?n/

Noun

horizon (plural horizons)

1. The visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

   Synonyms: skysill, skyline

2. (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
   • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:

     The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.

3. The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
4. (geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
5. (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.
7. (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

Derived terms

• archaeological horizon
• artificial horizon
• event horizon
• radar horizon

Related terms

• horizontal
• aorist

Translations

See also

• vertical

Further reading

• horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.ri.z?n/

Noun

horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)

1. horizon

   Synonyms: kim, einder

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: horizon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?i.z??/
• Homophone: horizons
• Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon

Noun

horizon m (plural horizons)

1. horizon

Derived terms

• bleu horizon
• horizon des événements
• horizon rationnel
• horizon sensible
• horizonner
• horizontal
• ligne d'horizon
• tour d'horizon

Further reading

• “horizon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch horizon, from Latin horiz?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n), from ???? (hóros, “boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ho?riz?n]
• Hyphenation: ho?ri?zon

Noun

horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)

1. horizon:
   1. the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

      Synonym: cakrawala

   2. (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
2. (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space

   Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara

Compounds

Further reading

• “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (horíz?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ho?riz.zo?n/, [h????z?d??z?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o?rid.d?zon/, [???id???z??n]

Noun

horiz?n m (genitive horizontis); third declension

1. horizon

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?n).

Descendants

References

• horizon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• white-out

Etymology

white +? out

Pronunciation

Noun

whiteout (countable and uncountable, plural whiteouts)

1. A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
2. Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
3. Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
4. (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
5. (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
6. The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
7. The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.

Translations

See also

• blackout
• brownout

Further reading

• whiteout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• withoute